Supporters besiege mosques in Kano, Saudi Arabia to pray for their candidates, peaceful supplementary polls

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Supporters of the candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kano State have decided to pray for victory in Saturday’s supplementary elections.

The prayer sessions, which peaked on Friday,  were said to have been holding in private homes and public mosques spread across the city of Kano.

Muslims in their thousands besieged mosques in the city to pray for a peaceful conduct of the supplementary election.

Supporters of different political parties also trooped to various designated prayer points to offer prayers in support of their preferred candidates.

Supporters of the Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, thronged a mosque in the Dala Local Government Area to offer prayers for his success in the upcoming supplementary poll.

Also, supporters of a former Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, met at the open field at the palace of the Emir of Kano to pray for the opposition candidate, Abba Yusuf, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

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This was just was an online video showed an unnamed businessman, who claimed to be a Kano State indigene, mobilising others to meet in various holy sites in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, to pray for the peaceful conduct of the upcoming poll.

The self-acclaimed deputy leader of a Saudi-based Allaha Wassalam group, in a YouTube post viewed in Kano on Friday, said he was mobilising all those who were interested to join him and others at a location in Jeddah on Thursday for visits to holy sites for special prayers which would culminate in the slaughtering of rams on Friday.

He also revealed that a Saudi Arabian businessman, who loved Kano and Nigeria, had offered four buses and undertaken to feed and convey those who could make it to Jeddah for the special prayer sessions to their different locations.

Speaking in Hausa, the unnamed businessman said, “With my position as deputy leader of Allaha Wassalam here in Saudi Arabia, I announce to you that we have finalised all arrangements for pilgrims coming to the holy land in Saudi Arabia to pray against those who are planning to cause chaos in Kano and Nigeria as a whole (because of the elections). We have made adequate arrangements.

“On arrival, we will spend the night in the Grand Mosque of Prophet Muhammad in Medina for special morning prayers, before proceeding to the Grand Mosque in Mecca for special evening prayers.”

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